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Birth Certificate Help Please!
« on: Monday 14 May 18 17:30 BST (UK) »
Hi,

Can any one make out this birth certificate for me please? I've been trying to reread it for a while but the handwriting is just so twirly and fancy and i really can't understand the majority of it.

Help would most definitely be appreciated,

thank you.
Lauren :)

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Re: Birth Certificate Help Please!
« Reply #1 on: Monday 14 May 18 17:35 BST (UK) »
Presumably you know the surname is Napier.   Elizabeth Jean?  Not sure of the time bit but born August 14th Sinclair Street, Dunblane. Father Alexander, blacksmith and mother Jane, maiden surname Forrest.  Married 1925 May 2nd Glasgow.  Informant Alex Napier.  Registered in Dunblane but I cannot make out the word after that.

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Re: Birth Certificate Help Please!
« Reply #2 on: Monday 14 May 18 17:45 BST (UK) »
O hr 15m pm
Transcriptions and NBI are merely finding aids.  They are NOT a substitute for original record entries.
Remember - "They'll be found when they want to be found" !!!
If you don't ask the question, you won't get an answer.
He/she who never made a mistake, never made anything.
Archbell - anywhere, any date
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Appleyard - WRY

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Re: Birth Certificate Help Please!
« Reply #3 on: Monday 14 May 18 19:05 BST (UK) »
Registered in Dunblane but I cannot make out the word after that.

In the heading it's Dunblane & Lecropt, which is the full name of the parish. In the When & Where Registered box it's the Assistant Registrar's signature, but I can't make it out.
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Re: Birth Certificate Help Please!
« Reply #4 on: Monday 14 May 18 19:11 BST (UK) »
Presumably you know the surname is Napier.   Elizabeth Jean?  Not sure of the time bit but born August 14th Sinclair Street, Dunblane. Father Alexander, blacksmith and mother Jane, maiden surname Forrest.  Married 1925 May 2nd Glasgow.  Informant Alex Napier.  Registered in Dunblane but I cannot make out the word after that.

thank you very much for the help! i've saved all the details now. Is Napier quite a difficult name to search for? As i'm trying to search for the marriage certificate online now, but i'm hitting a brick wall! Thanks again :)

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Re: Birth Certificate Help Please!
« Reply #5 on: Monday 14 May 18 19:29 BST (UK) »
From Scotlands People:
NAPIER ALEXANDER
and
FORREST
JEAN WEIR
1925
644/10 800
Blythswood
...also
NAPIER
ALEXANDER
HERD
JEAN WEIR
1925
644/10 800
Blythswood


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Re: Birth Certificate Help Please!
« Reply #6 on: Monday 14 May 18 20:09 BST (UK) »
From Scotlands People:
NAPIER ALEXANDER
and
FORREST
JEAN WEIR
1925
644/10 800
Blythswood
...also
NAPIER
ALEXANDER
HERD
JEAN WEIR
1925
644/10 800
Blythswood


Maureen

Hello Maureen! How did you find that? It's taken me hours and I've not found anything haha.. thank you so much. How come there's another one under the name herd? Thank you very much again :)

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« Reply #7 on: Monday 14 May 18 20:16 BST (UK) »
 :) :)

They will be the same certificate. Looks like a step-father's surname for her.

Maureen

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Re: Birth Certificate Help Please!
« Reply #8 on: Monday 14 May 18 20:21 BST (UK) »
Or could it be that she'd been married before - born Forrest, previously married a Mr Herd, now marrying Alexander Napier?

However, I haven't had much to do with 20th century Scottish certificates, so I don't know if this is how it would be done.
Researching among others:
Bartle, Bilton, Bingley, Campbell, Craven, Emmott, Harcourt, Hirst, Kellet(t), Kennedy,
Meaburn, Mennile/Meynell, Metcalf(e), Palliser, Robinson, Rutter, Shipley, Stow, Wilkinson

Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk